More ABI changes

[Walter Bright]

Don Clugston wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Don Clugston wrote:
>>> That's brilliant. It means you have automatic compression of trailing 
>>> zero bits. I guess if you strip off the "0x1.", you get rid of the 
>>> problem with the formats which use another character like "0xA." 
>>> instead.
>>> I presume it will have either the length at the front like an Lname, 
>>> or else some character as a delimiter?
>>
>> It doesn't need a delimiter, as it ends in a P followed by the 
>> exponent in decimal.
> 
> How can you tell when the exponent has ended? At least for complex 
> arguments, the next thing after the exponent will be the mantissa of the 
> next number, which could look exactly like a decimal number, so it's not 
> enough to just check for a non-digit character.

It just inserts another 'c'.

> (If the next thing was an Lname, there'd also be consecutive ASCII 
> digits, but that seems to be impossible, so maybe complex numbers are 
> the only problem case).

The next character has to be a non-digit.